So you're using server-side JScript on IIS with asp? Very cool
— Thomas Aylott SubtleGradient MooTools On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Pete Duncanson < [email protected]> wrote: > Excellent stuff! Theres me thinking I was the only one using it > commercially. > > Still trying to get my head around how the CommonJS stuff works, on first > look it seems to not want you to modify any of the Native objects which > would be a pain, no .each() etc. available without some hoop jumping. We > could end up lots of a lovely modules that all use different frameworks > which could really be a bind and lead to bloat. That or we end up with a > unified version (which I guess is what CommonJS is about but theres no > mention of a spec as yet) which would seem sensible but a sticky problem to > start as it will be a mind field of X does it like this, Y does it like that > style wars. > > In our ASP code we've been using Response.Write's to push stuff to the > response stream but after finding Jack and JSON Template I'm now thinking of > creating a new code of our code that tries to emulate this somewhat with a > final Response.Write at the end of the script. Also had an idea to create a > XML Document for each page which could be loaded from a static (or multiple > statics) and then you could do Element goodness with server-side before you > write it down to the Response Stream, this would give client-side coders a > leg up on how to do Server-Side as most of the DOM functions would be the > same. Is that an insane idea? I'm still pondering it :) > > Believe it or not the XML manipulation stuff is pretty damn fast on ASP (MS > got the guy who wrote the MS DOM stuff in for the re-write of their .net > implementation as their initial version was massively slower than the old > COM version). All the talk of ASP being slow tends to be based on old > articles from 10 years ago. On modern machines in the real world its > fantastically fast and really, really good fun to code with :) > > Pete
